Pascale Penfold

• Originally from France, I turned to ceramics in the early eighties and now produce handbuilt pots and sculptures which are painted with coloured slips, burnished and smoked.
• Often, a resist slip is applied in order to control smoking and when removed, reveals mottled areas. The result is a surrealistic combination, fluid and tactile, of the vegetable, animal and mineral, where the negative space is as powerful as the form itself.
• I tutor at the Tendring Adult Community College and am a part-time lecturer at the North East Essex School of Art and Design.